I rarely have time to even read Randy’s Saturday Night Fun Challenges on a Saturday night, much less respond to them. But tonight, I do have some time, and this one is not so challenging for me to answer! If Randy had chosen any other line, it would have been harder.

The challenge is this: Provide a list of your paternal grandmother’s patrilineal line. Answer these questions:
* What was your father’s mother’s maiden name?
* What was your father’s mother’s father’s name?
* What is your father’s mother’s father’s patrilineal line? That is, his father’s father’s father’s … back to the most distant male ancestor in that line?
* Can you identify male sibling(s) of your father’s mother, and any living male descendants from those male sibling(s)? If so, you have a candidate to do a Y-DNA test on that patrilineal line. If not, you may have to find male siblings, and their descendants, of the next generation back, or even further.

His father was also named Joseph Bergmeister (1843-unknown before 1885), born in Puch, Bavaria, Germany.

His father was Jakob Bergmeister (1805-1870), born in Puch, Bavaria, Germany.

His father was Joseph Bergmeister (1763-1840), born in Puch, Bavaria, Germany.

His father was Johann Paul Bergmeister (1721-1784), born in Puch, Bavaria, Germany.

His father was Martin Bergmeister (ca 1689-1752), born in Puch, Bavaria, Germany.

His father was likely Jakob Bergmeister / Permeister but this info is still being researched.

My grandmother Margaret Bergmeister had three brothers –

Joseph Bergmeister (1902-1986), who had three sons: Joseph, Robert, and Carl. There are three males descended from Joseph and Robert, and Carl had no children.

Max Bergmeister (1905-?) had no sons.

Julius Bergmeister(1907-?) had no sons.

Even if I did not have three male second cousins with the Bergmeister surname (two of whom I have been in touch with so far) and therefore candidates for the Y-DNA of my grandmother’s patrilineal line, I am also in touch with fourth and fifth male cousins with the common ancestors of Jakob (b.1805) or Joseph (b.1763) shown above. I haven’t looked into any kind of DNA testing, especially for this line, because there are plenty of Bergmeister men – both in the genealogical records and in my email in-box! Thanks, Grandmom, for having an easy patrilineal line to research! Click on the Bergmeister Family tab above for more info on this line.